Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
THE HOT WAVE.
SunstrOkes and PrOstratiOns In the
East, From New York to St.
Louis, on Account Of the
Heat From Which
They Suffer.
The Signal Service Record Beaten at
Several Points, and the Hos.
pitfalls Filled With
Patients.

| Patients.
AT NEW YORK.
New YORK, July 17.-The hot weather OF
Saturday was intensified to-day and there
was much suffering throughout the city
from a. m. until p. m. The mercury
ranged from 800 to 1920. The records OF
the police department for to-day show that
not less than forty.fve persons were
died. Saturday last was appalling. The
total number of cases cared for by the po-
lice department alone was over 100.
Thirty have proved fatal. When the com.
plete record is made it will be unprecedented
in the history of the city. Such degree OF
heat has not been experienced in this city
for thirty years.
For several hours to-day the thermom-
eter registered 1O1o in the shade, the high
est point reached for years. Six fatal cases
of sunstroke and fully score s,f prostra-
tions were reported. A number of sudden
deaths are also recorded, which may be
charged to the torrid spell. This afternoon
about 3 o'clock the dead bodies of VIM.
COTFlSbn duu JuO. DeuulS were lOuuu
their rooms in Jno. Delanes tavern, on
Grant street. The men were not addicted
to excessive drinking and the cause OF their
death is shrouded in mystery.
THE HOT WAVE IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 1.-THE News special
from Galesburg says: The heat for the past
six days has averaged 100 degrees. To-day
it reached 1O4 degrees, Four deaths oc-
Cured yesterday and two to-dry.
A wind storm followed by a light rain
passed over the city this morning, and at
10 O'Clock tonight the temperature had
dropped to 70.
An Inter Ocean special from China, ILL.,,
states that the mercury to-day registered
LOG in the shade at O'Clock. p. m. This
hot spell has been without a parallel. For
six days the mercury has ranged above
100. Tonight at $50 it is "a. No fatal
prostrations are reported.
At II o'clock tonight the latest returns
show that 62 persons have died, either in
or on the way to the various hospitals
since Saturday morning. These deaths are
all the direct result of sunstrOke and heat
prostration. A number OF patients in the
hospital are in a comatose condition and
the doctors consider their cases well-nigh
hopeless. At the county hospital nurses
and doctors have been working without
ceasing for thirty-six hours. The crush
far exceeds that following the Market
street riot.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, July 17.-With single
exception, to-day, July II, has been the
hottest day for over thirty years. At two
O'Clock this afternoon the Thermometer
registered 1O2 degrees in the shade. being
just one degree less than July 3, 1876, and
one degree NOR than yesterday. Up to a
late hour tonight there had been about
thirty cases OF sunstroke, four of which re-
suited fatally.
AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, July 17.-This city was visited
by another day of heat, and the suffering
was very great. The thermometer street
record registered 1O4 in the shade. Eleven
fatal cases of sunstroke and fifteen pros.
trations were reported. There is now a
warm breeze, and tomorrow it promises
still more oppressive beat.
THE HEAT AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, July 16.-The maximum heat
to-day was equal to that of yesterday,
while the average was higher. To-day for
the first time horses began to fall in the
streets. Sixteen persons were prOstrated
in public plaees. Seven deaths t''-tlay are
reported, making to-day and yesterday
twenty EIGHT prostrations and eleven
deaths. The signal station thermometer
registered SO g-1O degrees, the maximum oi
which means from 100 to 1O2 degrees on
the sidewalks.
There were reported up to midnight forty.
eight cases of sunstroke in the city to-day.
of which eighteen were fatal. and at mid.
night there were numerous additional calls
for patrol wagons for new cases. The mer'
curry on the street during the most OF the
day ranged from 100 to 1O4, and the air
was very still. People tonight are stand
ing, sitting, even sleeping on the sidewalks
and the hospitals are filling up with pa
tients.
AT JOLIET.
JOLIET, July 1.-THE record was beaten
to-day. The mercury touched 113 in the
shade. Two deaths and eighteen prostra
tions.
Fourteen convicts at the prison -e
overcome by heat to-day and two deaths
occurred. The thermometer registered zoos
at dayb break this morning and 113o in the
middle OF the day. The heat is simply ter
rife.
AT INDIANAPOLIs.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 1.-THE heat was
| intense here to-day. The maximum by
| the signal service thermometer was 1904
a record which has not beea equalled since
July, 1881. Four cases of prostration
| occurred, two OF which resulted fatally.
THREE CASES OF sUNsTRoKE.
DETROIT. July 17.-At Kalamazoo, three
cases of sunstroke were reported. No Ia
talities occurred in this city. According to
signal service reports mercury reached lOO
| in the shade during this afternoon. 1t is
growing decidedly cooler tonight.
AT PITTsBURG.
Pl1rsBuRG, July 17.-This was the hottest
and at the same time the driest Sunday
ever known here. Through the efforts o1
the law and order society every saloon in
| the city was closed tonight.
TBE WAVE AT CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND, July 17,-The thermometer
in Cleveland reached 95 degrees in the shade
at three o'clock this afternoon, which is
the highest reached thus far since the hot
season began. One fatal case.
AT ROCKFORD,
ROCKFORD, ILL.,. July 17.-No prostra
tions are reported and the mercury is
at 1O5.
| AT FORT WAYNE.
Fort WAYNE, Ind, July II. 1t was 1OC
degrees in the shade and number OF fatal
tiles we're recorded in this city to-day.
TWENTY CASES OF sUNsTRoKE.
| MILWAUKEE, July 16.-Up to II O'Clock
tonight twenty cases OF srnstroke hao
been reported at the Central police station
OF this number three we're fatal. The vic
Tins were either found dead on the streets
or died in the patrol wagon. The day wal
the hottest ever known in Milwaukee, tn
thermometer reaching one hundred degrees
| EXTREMES OF TEMPERATURE.
New YORK, July 16.-Advices to the As
sociated Press show the following extreme
of temperature at points named to-day
nearly all repo, ting the hottest day OF tn